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Save time and improve the accuracy of your 3D reality meshes with ContextCapture CONNECT Edition – Update 15.

Improve the accuracy of your 3D reality meshes and orthophotos!

• Get high-quality orthophotos with sharp geometry and visualization of thin elements
• Combine both GPS tags and GCPs at aerotriangulation stage to get high-fidelity 3D reality meshes (Learn more)
• Easily correct tie points in the 3D view right…

Enjoy an improved user experience and easily consume your reality data!

• ContextCapture Mobile is now available as 64bit Android and Apple applications.
  
  
• Take advantage of the new 30-day trial, automatically accessible to all Bentley users.
  
  
• Easily consume your reality data in various applications with new export formats (OBJ and FBX).
  
  
• Know at a glance if you’re in trial mode from the display of a pop-up and the header…

Enjoy an improved user experience and streamline your inspection workflow!

• Take advantage of a revamped interface and provide more information and clarity in job submissions
• Streamline your operations and decrease inspection costs with the automatic upload of orientation files for photo navigation in a reality data web viewer. Perform simultaneous navigation and viewing of 2D images and a 3D reality mesh with an “on…

We are pleased to announce that ContextCapture Cloud Processing Console - Update 6 is available!

Enjoy an improved user experience and better manage your reality data!

• Take advantage of a revamped submit dialog for job submission, featuring more settings and options. Easily choose the settings you want for the aerotriangulation or output format and get a quick estimate of production costs.
• Get a quick overview of your…

With ContextCapture CONNECT Edition - Update 14, easily access Reality Modeling Cloud Services and improve team collaboration and speed up the production of your projects! Leverage ContextCapture Insights and automatically detect and locate objects in your reality meshes.

Improve team collaboration and productivity!

• Quickly share all your reality data with your team on ProjectWise ContextShare in one-click button from…

We are pleased to announce that ContextCapture CONNECT Edition - Update 13 is available!


Save time with the latest capabilities!

• Easily create April tags for automatic geo-registration of ground control points when you capture data using a drone. Create tags in ContextCapture Master and use these tags during the drone flight. Your reality data is automatically georeferenced during data processing, with no requirement…

We are pleased to announce the availability of Bentley Descartes Update 6 and ContextCapture Editor Update 5

Quickly and easily manipulate reality meshes of any scale with this advanced processing tool for reality modeling data.

Improve your reality modeling experience 

• More flexibility for clipping your reality meshes 
  Benefit from a user-friendly interface to select ​an area of interest with the new Technology Preview scalable…

Meet your most demanding deadlines with dramatically reduced processing time!

With ContextCapture CONNECT Edition - Update 12, users can leverage parallel computing to speed the production of their 3D reality meshes.

Create your processing farm by connecting two ContextCapture desktop licenses.

Cut your processing time in half and meet your most demanding deadlines!

Learn how to leverage parallel computing power.

We are pleased to announce the availability of ContextCapture Cloud Processing Console - Update 5

​Easily generate high-fidelity 3D reality meshes using simple photos and/or point clouds with Bentley’s ContextCapture Cloud Processing Console application. And experience the processing power of ContextCapture with our cloud-based multi-engine cloud processing service to create 3D models of any size and scale.  

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Better understand and easily extract information from your 3D reality meshes with ContextCapture’s new capabilities.

Splat Display Mode

ContextCapture’s new Splat display mode provides faster insight into reality modeling projects. Immediately after aerotriangulation, users can take advantage of this new 3D-view to reliably perform measurements and quality assessment.

Photo Navigation

Quickly and efficiently…

Improve the efficiency of your workflows with the latest update of Descartes!

More Flexibility in Descartes CONNECT Edition – Update 4

• Better display of 3D reality meshes with the new “forward” and “backward” Clip Volume settings in the Section tools
• Ability to display point clouds in cross-section views using only a Cut Plane with new Tolerance setting

Better performance and usability…

Get the most out of your 3D reality meshes!

With ContextCapture Viewer, you can better understand and explore your 3D models using a variety of display modes including texture, hillshade and wireframe.

Get valuable information when you analyze your 3D model to extract measurements including surface areas and volumes with the unit system of your choice.

Present your projects in an interactive and visualizing way and create…

Creating 3D reality models from the field or the office is now easier than ever!

You can work more efficiently with an enhanced user-friendly interface in the ContextCapture Console and ContextCapture Mobile applications. 

Take advantage of the latest performance optimizations including thumbnail display and upload steps in ContextCapture Console.

With the new Surveys-tab, you can better view your 3D model and accelerate…

Speed up your workflow and increase the accuracy of your 3D models when you leverage the latest capabilities of ContextCapture to your reality modeling workflows.

• Surveys Window
  You can speed up the import and registration of survey points with the new surveys window feature enabling zoom view, multi-registration, and vertical image sorting to easily identify the most relevant images for ground control points registration…

Easily handle water surfaces in your 3D model
With the surface constraints feature, you can create high quality 3D reality meshes on water areas and other challenging surfaces.

Deliver the exact spatial area you need for your projects
Quickly define your 3D model boundary regions and remove artifacts with the new polygon clipping feature.

Export and analyze 3D models in the new ContextCapture Web Viewer 2.0
Share your 3D…

Improve your asset acquisitions and generate 3D models faster with ContextCapture CONNECT Edition – Update 8

With the updated quality report in ContextCapture, you can quantify the accuracy of your work and better aligns it with RFP compliances. For planning of future capture missions, the report helps highlighting areas where you can increase the precision of your 3D model . Additionally, the recent update allows…

We are pleased to announce the availability of two new data centers located in Europe and Southeast Asia with a total of three including the one in North America.  With additional data centers, it will improve the upload and streaming speed of reality modeling data for users.

Additionally, users can take advantage of faster processing and reconstruction of their reality meshes thanks to the support of parallel processing…

We are pleased to announce the release of ContextCapture CONNECT Edition – Update 7.

This update includes a more robust and parallelized aerotriangulation and faster multi-GPU support for users to generate 3D reality meshes of virtually any size or precision up to 30% faster than previously possible.

Additionally, users can now easily split large blocks before aerotriangulation with the new extract block mode…

Creating 3D models with simple photos has become easier and more accessible for your project teams with Bentley System’s Reality Modeling cloud services.

Quickly generate 3D engineering ready reality meshes whether you are on a job site or in the office with ContextCapture Cloud Processing Service. 

ContextCapture cloud processing service enables you to upload your photos and quickly generate 3D engineering-ready…

We are pleased to announce the release of ContextCapture CONNECT Edition – Update 6 and its module, ContextCapture Editor CONNECT Edition – Update 1.

ContextCapture CONNECT Edition - Update 6

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With the update, ContextCapture enables the production of 3D Resolution Map that associate resolution to any 3D location on your model. This 3D quality control and reporting tool streamlines the analysis of project…

We are pleased to announce the release of Bentley Descartes CONNECT Edition - Update 2 to provide you with robust capabilities to make the most of your reality modeling data.

Scalable Mesh Format
Scalable mesh technology enables multi-resolution inputs through the new (.3sm) format. With the Bentley Descartes update, you can convert a reality mesh (.3mx) to the new scalable mesh format, attach, and display it in MicroStation…

Interested in editing your Reality Modeling data using ContextCapture?

ContextCapture Editor, a 3D CAD based on PowerDraft, allows you to leverage reality meshes, terrain models, and point clouds made of billions of points and triangles for use in information modeling workflows.

Take advantage of ContextCapture Editor, a module included with ContextCapture and ContextCapture Center.

This powerful application can be used…